[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Drop the udev firmware loader

[Cristian Rodríguez]

El vie 30 may 2014 01:41:37 CLT, Samuli Suominen escribió:
>
> On 30/05/14 04:55, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 03:40:52AM +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 08:54:22PM -0400, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
>>>> As discussed ad-nauseum previously, it is the kernel's task
>>>> to load firmware, not udev's.
>>> I think this patch is a bad idea - it makes things harder for people
>>> who, for whatever reason, good or bad, run older kernels. At the same
>>> time, our maintenance burden is pretty much zero.
>> What kernel version are you thinking still needs this, that would ever
>> want to have a new version of systemd on it?
>
> We use systemd's udevd on old as Linux 2.6.32.61 succesfully, this patch
> would be very harmful
> to us (Gentoo)

Really ? the minimum requirements are:

REQUIREMENTS:
        Linux kernel >= 3.0
        Linux kernel >= 3.3 for loop device partition support features 
with nspawn
        Linux kernel >= 3.8 for Smack support

Also. libudev now uses name_to_handle_at() which appeared in 2.6.39 ...